Why is life expectancy way lower in the US than the other civilized countries

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(09-02-2023, 10:06 AM)Dill Wrote: You are referring to KG's data source, right? 

I find it surprising that the top 10 seem to be mostly Pacific Islands. 

Don't know if "acceptable sample size" applies to a ranking of sovereign nations, though,

if the goal is measure obesity rates in different sovereign nations.

Acceptable sample size certainly still applies to them. If 2 people from a country of 10,000 die from any single source in a accident, .02% of that country just died that year from that accident. That would be the same as it happening to a huge amount of people in the US.

That makes it pointless to put them in rankings. A single large family of 10 people having a genetic predisposition towards a medical condition would be the same as over 330,000 people in the US.

One of those counties were under 2,000 people.

If you honestly don't see how including them in any rankings of the world when 1 or 2 people can have the same statistical weight as hundreds of thousands is a problem, then you are being willfully ignorant.